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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda is famous for the endangered mountain gorillas that inhabit its lush, misty highlands. It’s also home to around 120 other species of mammal, 350 types of bird and hundreds of plant varieties — and, on its borders, people and livestock. That’s a recipe for what epidemiologists call spillover,
Light emitted by a microplasma could be used to monitor a molten-salt nuclear reactor.Credit: ORNL New insight into an old material Because it can tolerate high temperatures and neutron damage, the carbon material graphite is used in several ways in nuclear reactors. It has a role in structural components and in fuel coatings, and it
Skin cancer cells viewed under a microscope. Such images can reveal how the cancer spreads.Credit: NCI Center for Cancer Research/NCI/SPL The announcement on 19 August that people with melanoma who received a personalized vaccine lived longer without a cancer recurrence than those who didn’t have the vaccine is a sensation for the field. The results
Being tired behind the wheel can be as dangerous as driving while drunk1. Yet, whereas showing up to work intoxicated can lead to dismissal, being visibly sleepy doesn’t tend to have comparable consequences — at least for now. Too hot to sleep? How heatwaves at night affect our health As employers learn more about the
China is making waves in global health care. The country’s biotechnology companies are producing medicines at a speed and cost that has drawn interest from the world’s largest pharmaceutical groups. They manufacture drugs and medical equipment used across the world. And the national health-care system is testing digital models that connect appointments, test results, follow-up